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The Fentanyl Crisis: A UNLV Community Response
No full textBrookings Mountain West hosted a live panel discussion with UNLV faculty experts and Brookings Senior Fellow, Vanda Felbab-Brown on the critical topic of the fentanyl crisis in America. The devastating impacts of synthetic opioids in the United States cannot be overstated: more than 100,000 Americans are dying of drug overdoses annually, with fentanyl as a major contributor. Health experts have called the fentanyl crisis in North America the most lethal drug epidemic in history.
In this live panel, faculty discuss their work to combat fentanyl abuse in our region, and provide policymakers, law enforcement leadership, and community nonprofits an inside glimpse at the obstacles to prevention, education, and treatment faced by those working on the epidemic’s front lines. Their collective work was recently featured on a popular Brookings podcast series hosted by Felbab-Brown, The Killing Drugs: Synthetic Opioids around the World. The podcast series takes a comprehensive look at the fentanyl crisis nationwide and around the world, and features 2 episodes with UNLV faculty from the UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine and Department of Criminal Justice at UNLV
Designing Futures: Embedding Life Design Into Second-Year Seminar
No full textIn COE 202: Second-Year Seminar (SYS), students engage in Life Design to build purpose-driven academic and career pathways. We use design thinking to help students: Identify values, strengths, and goals Explore possible life and career directions Reflect on academic choices in relation to future plans
Life Design Portfolio — Includes: Worldview & Lifeview reflections Odyssey Plans Decision-Making Matrix Prototyping conversations and experiences
Learning Outcomes: Apply design thinking to life and career planning Demonstrate reflective decision-making skills Articulate personal and professional values Connect coursework to long-term aspirationshttps://oasis.library.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1213/thumbnail.jp
Tractors on the Mall: Unraveling the New Deal, Political Shifts, and the 1980s Farm Crisis
No full textIn the 1980s, Midwestern farmers faced an economic crisis that rivaled the Great Depression. Agricultural policy in the 1970s and 1980s led to a boom and bust for many of the nation’s farmers, causing the decline in rural communities in the middle of the country. During this period, more efficient agricultural production, shifting federal policy, high inflation, and devalued farmland led farmers in the Midwest to face incredible economic hardships, loss of land, changes in their communities, and challenges to their sense of purpose and identity. The Farm Crisis of the 1980s furnishes an extraordinary opportunity to investigate a confluence of forces, economic, political, social, cultural, and global, that can disrupt traditional narratives about farming communities while simultaneously extolling the long-touted virtues of American farmers. The United States began as a nation of farmers, and farming still carries cultural power as an occupation that encapsulates national values like self-sufficiency and a strong work ethic. The transition from family farms to agribusiness has shaken every aspect of the nation’s agrarian origins, real or imagined. This research seeks to address four key questions. First, how did the social and economic landscape shape a shift to conservatism in the United States. Second, what role did deregulatory and agricultural policies play in causing the Farm Crisis? Third, how did changes in farming practices also alter labor practices, social structures, and power dynamics in rural communities? Fourth, what effect did the changes in farming have on local ecologies and water resources in the region? It is important to note that American agricultural history makes sense only in context with broader economic and political trends
Error Processing in Psychopathy: An Analysis of Event Related Brain Potentials and Post-Error Task Behavior
No full textPerformance monitoring and error processing are crucial for learning from mistakes, adjusting responses, and adapting to the environment. Individuals with psychopathy present with failures in performance monitoring, particularly a failure to learn from experience, and error processing deficits have been reported in this population. Error processing literature has investigated its underlying mechanisms via two prongs, namely behavioral measures and electroencephalography (EEG) indicators. Behaviorally, error processing literature has focused on post-error slowing (PES) and post-error accuracy (PEA). Meanwhile, EEG research has identified two components of error-related brain potentials (ERPs) in error processing: error-related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe). This study investigated error processing in psychopathy, via a letter-shock task and assessing for both behavioral (i.e., PES and PEA) and psychophysiological (i.e., ERN and Pe) measures. While we predicted error processing deficits associated with impulsive-antisocial traits, instead we found error processing improvements associated with interpersonal-affective traits, with higher PEA and enhanced ERN amplitudes. Overall, our findings add to the literature on successful psychopathy, a controversial yet commonly-cited concept, defined as the display of core psychopathic traits while still able to achieve and maintain success
Teaching, Building, Learning: AI in Nursing Education
No full textThe session is grounded in two guiding frameworks. The ADDIE instructional design model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) structures how AI can be systematically integrated into teaching practice, from identifying learning needs to evaluating outcomes. The RISEN framework (Role, Input, Steps, Evaluation, Next) provides faculty with a structured method for developing effective AI prompts and maintaining academic rigor. Together, these frameworks highlight how AI can be embedded purposefully rather than opportunistically.
Participants will leave with strategies for incorporating AI into their own courses, including techniques for building equitable group work, creating adaptable case studies, and designing assignments that encourage students to critically evaluate AI as a partner in knowledge generation. By the end of the session, attendees will be equipped with replicable models to responsibly and creatively integrate AI into teaching and learning
Economic Growth in Mountain West Cities, 2019-2023
No full textThis fact sheet presents 2019-2023 data on economic growth indicators in 32 Mountain West cities across Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The CoworkingCafe report, “Rising Powerhouses: The Cities Making America’s Economic Future,” includes economic growth data for 269 cities across the United States. This fact sheet highlights data from select cities in each Mountain West state, categorized by population size: five large cities, eight mid-sized cities, and 19 small cities
Local Journalist Equivalents (LJEs) in the Mountain West, 2025
No full textThis fact sheet presents 2025 data on Local Journalist Equivalents (LJEs) for the Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The data are derived from the Muck Rack report “Local Journalist Index 2025,” which includes data on LJEs for states and counties across the U.S. This fact sheet highlights state-level LJE data among Mountain West states, as well as LJE data for the following 17 Nevada counties: Carson City, Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Storey, Washoe, and White Pine
Understanding Film Tax Credits in Nevada and Nationally
No full textThis policy primer provides an overview of Nevada’s transferable tax credit program for film and other productions and reviews articles, reports, audits, and studies of film tax credits as a tool for economic development in the United States. This review considers a significant body of work analyzing the use of film tax credits in support of economic development. Studies and state audits often show that because film tax credits do not create the number and quality of full-time jobs necessary to merit their costs and do little to stimulate other related industries, they are a poor financial choice for state governments seeking to invest public assets to spur economic growth. Far from a recession-proof industry, film and television production is experiencing major disruptions due to rising costs, lower production levels, changing audience preferences, and the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI). These challenges are ushering in an era of seismic technological shifts and consolidations and mergers that will transform the industry in the coming years
Public School Funding in the Mountain West, 2020-2021
No full textThis fact sheet examines the state of public school funding across the five Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The data are sourced from the Education Law Center’s 2023 Making the Grade report, which provides data for all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The original report provides grades for school funding, enrollment data, and funding data based on the 2020-2021 school year
Will Vegas Bet on Itself?
No full textAbstract: Las Vegas faces a serious dilemma post covid, whats next? After having been decimated with the shot to hospitality it nearly collapsed the city. The question I am supposing is how do we prevent this? Like any investor would suggest, diversify your portfolio to mitigate risk. So why hasn’t Vegas done this with the job market? I seek to answer this by using models and illustrating how the outcome will behttps://oasis.library.unlv.edu/durep_podium/1066/thumbnail.jp